Issue #5

S PORTS BUSINESS CLUB MARCH/APRIL

Issue #1 January
Meetings:

This semester started off with a welcome back

meeting where we introduced our executive board
for this semester and previewed some of the
speakers that we would have in the coming weeks. In
the following week, we held an internship panel. The
panel consisted of Justin Lucker, Sydney Eckert, Alan
McGlone, Kaitlyn Vander Woude, and Mike Reasor,
who explained to members the daily responsibilities
of internships that they have worked. Some of these
internships included the Washington Redskins, Penn Welcome Back Meeting
State Football, and Dick’s Sporting Goods. All the
speakers had tremendous insight, knowledge, and
advice to share. We continued our internship
preparation theme at the next meeting, where we
taught members how to use teamworkonline.com, a
website that posts sports-related internship
openings around the United States. This could be a
very useful tool for all of our members that are
looking for an internship in sports. The final meeting
of the month was a pasta party benefitting THON. We
want to thank everyone who came out to meetings
this month, and we are excited to announce that we
have a stacked meeting schedule coming up in
February. This begins on Tuesday February 6th,
where Daniel Solomon of Penn State Sports
Properties will be coming to talk with us. Another
notable speaker coming up in February is Joey
Brander of ESPN and Yahoo. We will keep everyone
Internship Panel
updated on the times and locations of future
meetings.
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SBC Around Campus:

Meals on Wheels
IM Sports Updates:

The second semester has kicked

off and so has our IM basketball
leagues! Our Monday team won
the first week while suffering a
tough defeat in the second week.
The Wednesday team lost in
both weeks. Both teams hope to
attack the third week with
confidence and bring home a W. On Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, members of Sports
Cheer on both teams on Monday
Business Club volunteered
and Wednesday night as they
for Meals on Wheels. They
represent the Sports Business helped deliver freshly
Club! prepared meals to people in
State College who weren’t
capable of getting food for
themselves due to a physical
or mental health issue. It put a
huge smile on the faces of
these people because they
knew they weren’t going to
go hungry for that meal. The
Sports Business Club
members who participated in
this described it as a
“humbling and rewarding
experience.”

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THON UPDATES:

This month, Sports Business Club got our

first THON family! Our members
welcomed the Coldsmiths to Happy
Valley with a day full of fun. We went
bowling, ate at the creamery, and took
photos at the lion shrine. We are super
excited to see them again THON
weekend! We have increased our
fundraising total over $12,000 thanks to a
great pasta dinner last week. Members
enjoyed all you can eat pasta while
benefitting THON. We also made special
15th birthday cards for Erica!

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Meet Our New President: Penn State Basketball Update

Devin Naylon Penn State Men’s Basketball

returned to its winning ways over
This semester our club has introduced a
new president, Devin Naylon. Devin has
the past two weeks. The Nittany
been a member of Sports Business Club Lions have won 3 of their last 4,
since fall of 2016 in his freshman year. including a road win over then #13
Devin wasted no time taking initiative as
he interviewed and obtained a spot on our
Ohio State that was capped off by a
marketing committee right away. After Tony Carr game-winning heave at
displaying great leadership as a freshman the buzzer. The hot streak can be
Devin ran for president and won. Devin is
currently in his sophomore year studying
attributed to the return of top
marketing, and is originally from defender Josh Reaves from
Sykesville, Maryland. Aside from being academic ineligibility. The Lions
our president he is also in his first year as
an intern in the Penn State Football office.
are 6-6 in Big Ten play and 16-9
There Devin assists in recruiting matters overall. An NCAA tourney bid is a
and you can see him on the field before bit of longshot currently, but with
games. Devin spends plenty of time at the
IM lifting or playing basketball. If you see
games against Ohio State,
him around campus feel free to say hi as Michigan, and Purdue still
he is easily one of the most approachable remaining, PSU has plenty of
and outgoing people you’ll find here at
Penn State. His past as a strong leader and
chances to improve its resume.
his ability to work with others is just part of
the reason we are so excited to have him
be our next president.